I was productive today
Painted the hub caps w/ krylon fusion flat black and adjusted the koni red's in the rear to full hard (not w/o incident)
I know from the angles of the photos you cannot tell, but the car is lowered on sportlines and koni reds...
Enjoy!
Before:
Just for fun - during the TTR trans mount install:
Looks good..I did mine glossy, but I can honestly say I like yours more!
Maybe I'll get a can a re do them!
You used the matte krylon fusion?
only way hub caps should look! taking em' off is for losers!
WiGM-Tuners member.
Krylon Fuzion likes to chip, I hope you roughed them up something fierce and cleaned the hell out of em before shootin em.
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love the tails def doing that 2 mine
z28guy(KGM BEOTCH)
tails look good, i dont understand why we're excited over hubcaps though, especially when the rest of the car is on the right track towards being pretty damn nice
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Casey Schaaf wrote:tails look good, i dont understand why we're excited over hubcaps though, especially when the rest of the car is on the right track towards being pretty damn nice
Its just a temporary fix..for me, and most likely him as well..They look better black than stock silver!!!
well watch the regionals, in mid central theres a set of ls sport 16s on some bfgoodrich rubber for like 400,, keeo the eyes peeled, im sure theres something like that in your area
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Thanks guys,
Just some general replies:
I prepped the hub caps well - krylon fusion is made specifically for plastic, and i've used it before w/ great success. I'm not too worried about chipping. Prepping: wash thoroughly w/ detergent and rinse, wash with degreaser and rinse, second detergent and rinse, 70% isopropanol, 90% isopropanol...yea this paint isnt chipping w/o a real fight
Its actually the "satin" finish, but it looks pretty "flat" to me
The light bar was done basically the same way as well as the little plate on the front bumper with the placard. This brings the car together quite nicely IMO. Its not really a temp fix either - this is a daily driver and its much faster/fuel efficient with the 14's on than anything bigger. I wanted something stock-ish that trends well with the rest of the car so this is it. I briefly considered bronze, but i just couldnt see it on the silver car...
Those tires are ginormous! Why 70's?
2010 Subaru Impreza WRX Limited
1999 Cavalier Z24 Supercharged
1999 Grand AM SE (Beater Car)
1997 GMC Sierra
2007 Honda CBR 600RR
2005 Honda TRX450R
so how do you like the mount?
Riddle me this... riddle me that...
The mounts are awesome - they do what there supposed to do...there's really no drivetrain movement and theres a shudder when launching at low rpm and little to no vibes otherwise. For some reason the A/C causes mad vibes...but i do not really use it.
195/70/14 are the stock base model size. The recommended pressure is like 30psi, but thats just to floppy for lateral traction and decent traction so I run 36psi rear and 38psi front...the max psi for the tire is 44psi.
